I do not know why the centenary celebrations of Lal Bahadur Shastri's birthday were on a low key. They came to end on October 2, his birthday. The central government allocated Rs 100 crore for the ...

Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India died of a heart attack last night in Tashkent, U.S.S.R., hours after signing a limited agreement on Kashmir with Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan.

New Delhi: When Lal Bahadur Shastri set out to meet General Ayub Khan in 1966, a journalist asked how he would negotiate peace with the formidable, 6-foot-2 Pakistani president. To this ...

On October 2nd, India commemorated the birth anniversaries of two significant figures—Mahatma Gandhi, widely known as the 'Father of the Nation', and Lal Bahadur Shastri, a former Prime Minister.